25 January 2013: The union has backed calls to halt the deportation of Rzhwan Amin, an NUJ member and UK based journalist who fled Iraq in 2010 because of threats relating to newspaper articles he had written.

31 October 2012: Journalists should make sure that their coverage of refugees and asylum seekers is fair, after a poll found that 72 per cent of the public believe that newspaper reporting about these groups is negative.